Othello
Othello, Shakespeare’s great hero, falls victim to a “fake news” plot that drives him mad with jealousy and murders his wife in a grandiose production directed by Adrian Noble, one of the world’s greatest Shakespeare directors. In collaboration with the Vienna State Opera.
Mothers
The story of Hagar and Sarah, Rachel and Leah, Noah’s wife and Lot’s wife, and other women from the Genesis story. After 3,000 years, they finally open their mouths and tell the familiar stories through their own eyes. A special production in collaboration with Gesher Theater.
The Valley Railway and the Rock on a Rock | The Opera Sings Together
Beethoven | Dvořák
Bar Avni, winner of first place in the international “La Maestra” competition, is coming to the Israel Symphony Orchestra in Rishon LeZion, along with the young and promising violinist Michael Shaham, who will perform Beethoven’s Violin Concerto.
Requiem for War
“The Intellectual History” (led by Omer Ben Yaakov) hosts a live podcast with Galit Hogi and Talia Bartfeld, in collaboration with singers of the Israeli Opera, under the musical direction of David Sebba. This encounter between conversation and music will explore the ways wars have been reflected in art throughout history – and in music in particular.
Things you see from there | The opera sings together
Elgar | Fremont
The opening concert of the 36th season of the Rishon LeZion Israel Symphony Orchestra with a world premiere performance of the work “Red South” by Chaim Fremont, as a commemoration of the events of October 7.
Ratem Nir arrives to lead the orchestra with Collegium Singers and Madrigal Singers and together with the mezzo-soprano singer Rona Shrira.
Also in the concert: Enigma Variations, one of Elgar’s intriguing and unsolved works
It’s funny to me | The opera sings together
I will talk to you. I will talk to you.
Hebrew. Arabic.
How close and similar, but in the melodrama so far and different. A project of love songs – Hebrew and Arabic – in a way that has never been heard before. The Hebrew songs – will be sung in Arabic, while the Arabic songs – will be sung in Hebrew. Thus, through translation into the other language, we will come closer and farther away, move between the familiar and the strange, hear our love songs differently and create a common dialogue.